Assignment 5: Public Health Preparedness Due Week 10 and worth 200 points You have just been hired as a new Vice President of Quality and Safety for a full-service 600-bed government healthcare organization. Within your first month on the job, the national security threat level has been raised to Imminent, which means there is a credible, specific, and impending terrorist threat against the United States and your facility may be directly impacted. The Chief Executive Officer has requested an immediate six to eight (6-8) page report of your proposal for handling such a situation. Note: You may create and /or make all necessary assumptions needed for the completion of this assignment. Write a six to eight (6-8) page paper in which you: 1. Examine the existing procedures related to at least four (4) of the ten (10) essential public health services. Focus on the principal effects that these procedures will have on your hospital during the emergency. 2. Specify the importance of continuing to evaluate patients, as stipulated by the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA), during the emergency. 3. Detail three (3) measures that you would use in order to maintain the electronic medical record system during the emergency. 4. Defend your position on the decision to accept health insurance during the emergency as a potential source of income for the facility. Provide support with at least three (3) examples that illustrate your position. 5. Analyze the extent to which this emergency might affect the quality of care provided to the patients and the unimpeded operation of the organization. 6. Use at least three (3) quality references. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not qualify as academic resources. Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:  Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.  Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length. The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:  Analyze the impact of healthcare financing and health insurance on healthcare access, quality, and cost.  Examine information management and health care records and how the legal reporting requirements impact health care.  Analyze the influence of health policy and health reform on healthcare access, quality, and cost in the U.S.  Analyze tort reform and healthcare quality.  Use technology and information resources to research issues in healthcare policy and law.  Write clearly and concisely about healthcare policy and law using proper writing mechanics. HSA 405 – Assignments ...

1. Assignment 5: Public Health Preparedness
Due Week 10 and worth 200 points
You have just been hired as a new Vice President of Quality and
Safety for a full-service 600-bed government healthcare
organization. Within your first month on the job, the national
security threat level has been raised to Imminent, which means
there is a credible, specific, and impending terrorist threat
against the United States and your facility may be directly
impacted. The Chief Executive Officer has requested an
immediate six to eight (6-8) page report of your proposal for
handling such a situation.
Note: You may create and /or make all necessary assumptions
needed for the completion of this assignment.
Write a six to eight (6-8) page paper in which you:
1. Examine the existing procedures related to at least four (4) of
the ten (10) essential public health services. Focus on the
principal effects that these procedures will have on your
hospital during the emergency.
2. Specify the importance of continuing to evaluate patients, as
stipulated by the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active
Labor Act (EMTALA), during the emergency.
3. Detail three (3) measures that you would use in order to
maintain the electronic medical record system during the
emergency.
4. Defend your position on the decision to accept health
insurance during the emergency as a potential source of income

2. for the facility. Provide support with at least three (3) examples
that illustrate your position.
5. Analyze the extent to which this emergency might affect the
quality of care provided to the patients and the unimpeded
operation of the organization.
6. Use at least three (3) quality references. Note: Wikipedia and
other Websites do not qualify as academic resources.
Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:
w Roman font (size
12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references
must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your
professor for any additional instructions.
the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and
the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included
in the required assignment page length.
The specific course learning outcomes associated with this
assignment are:
impact of healthcare financing and health
insurance on healthcare access, quality, and cost.
and how the legal reporting requirements impact health care.
d health reform on
healthcare access, quality, and cost in the U.S.
in healthcare policy and law.

3. policy and law
using proper writing mechanics.
HSA 405 – Assignments and Rubrics
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Grading for this assignment will be based on answer quality,
logic / organization of the paper, and language and writing
skills, using the following rubric. Points: 200
Assignment 5: Public Health Preparedness
Criteria
Unacceptable
Below 60% F
Meets Minimum Expectations
60-69% D
Fair
70-79% C
Proficient
80-89% B
Exemplary
90-100% A
1. Examine the existing procedures related to at least four (4) of
the ten (10) essential public health services. Focus on the
principal effects that these procedures will have on your
hospital during the emergency.
Weight: 20%
Did not submit or incompletely examined the existing
procedures related to at least four (4) of the ten (10) essential
public health services. Did not submit or incompletely focused

4. on the principal effects that these procedures will have on your
hospital during the emergency.
Insufficiently examined the existing procedures related to at
least four (4) of the ten (10) essential public health services.
Insufficiently focused on the principal effects that these
procedures will have on your hospital during the emergency.
Partially examined the existing procedures related to at least
four (4) of the ten (10) essential public health services. Partially
focused on the principal effects that these procedures will have
on your hospital during the emergency.
Satisfactorily examined the existing procedures related to at
least four (4) of the ten (10) essential public health services.
Satisfactorily focused on the principal effects that these
procedures will have on your hospital during the emergency.
Thoroughly examined the existing procedures related to at least
four (4) of the ten (10) essential public health services.
Thoroughly focused on the principal effects that these
procedures will have on your hospital during the emergency.
2. Specify the importance of continuing to evaluate patients, as
stipulated by the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active
Labor Act (EMTALA), during the emergency. Weight: 16%
Did not submit or incompletely specified the importance of
continuing to evaluate patients, as stipulated by the Emergency
Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA), during
the emergency.
Insufficiently specified the importance of continuing to evaluate
patients, as stipulated by the Emergency Medical Treatment and
Active Labor Act (EMTALA), during the emergency.
Partially specified the importance of continuing to evaluate
patients, as stipulated by the Emergency Medical Treatment and
Active Labor Act (EMTALA), during the emergency.
Satisfactorily specified the importance of continuing to evaluate
patients, as stipulated by the Emergency Medical Treatment and
Active Labor Act (EMTALA), during the emergency.
Thoroughly specified the importance of continuing to evaluate
patients, as stipulated by the Emergency Medical Treatment and

5. Active Labor Act (EMTALA), during the emergency.
3. Detail three (3) measures that you would use in order to
maintain the electronic medical record system during the
emergency.
Weight: 18%
Did not submit or incompletely detailed three (3) measures that
you would use in order to maintain the electronic medical
record system during the emergency.
Insufficiently detailed three (3) measures that you would use in
order to maintain the electronic medical record system during
the emergency.
Partially detailed three (3) measures that you would use in order
to maintain the electronic medical record system during the
emergency.
Satisfactorily detailed three (3) measures that you would use in
order to maintain the electronic medical record system during
the emergency.
Thoroughly detailed three (3) measures that you would use in
order to maintain the electronic medical record system during
the emergency.
4. Defend your position on the decision to accept health
insurance during the emergency as a potential source of
Did not submit or incompletely defended your position on the
decision to accept health
Insufficiently defended your position on the decision to accept
health insurance
Partially defended your position on the decision to accept health
insurance
Satisfactorily defended your position on the decision to accept
health insurance
Thoroughly defended your position on the decision to accept
health insurance